I'm in the catagory of 'wait and see' on this one. Starting with the casting.
-GTW In a message dated 6/16/08 8:51:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I caught this earlier this afternoon in another of my groups. Might be > interesting. > > Tracey de Morsella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kasdan To Adapt Robotech > > Veteran screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan has been hired to write Robotech, > Warner Brothers' feature-film adaptation of the anime classic, according to > The Hollywood Reporter. > > Akiva Goldsman and Chuck Roven are boarding the project as producers, > joining Tobey Maguire and Drew Crevello. > > Robotech was a 1980s cartoon series from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko > Productions. It was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese > anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily > syndicated series. > > A sprawling SF epic, Robotech takes place at a time when Earth has developed > giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a > South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off > three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion centers on a > battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship's > energy source, known as "protoculture," and the planet's hope for survival > ends up in the hands of two young pilots. > > Robotech extends Kasdan's return to the fantasy genre that began last year, > when he was tapped to pen the Clash of the Titans remake for Warner and > Thunder Road. Kasdan wrote the screenplays for Return of the Jedi, The > Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark before writing The Big Chill > and Grand Canyon. > > http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=56052 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > ************** Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
